Recaps

Li Yang arrived to rescue Su Miao and the other women from the fiends, revealing overwhelming swordsmanship as he killed one attacker and drove the rest to flee. Su Miao told the women to check the Slaughter Ranking, declaring that her junior brother’s name was Qin Feng.

• Li Yang confronted the fiends and warned the Dual Cultivation Demon Scion that their lives were in his hands.
• Li Yang tore through the Demon Scion’s yin-yang attack and killed a seductive female cultivator who threatened him.
• Li Yang gave defensive Formation Plates to Du Tinglan, then pursued the fiends while the women and more than thirty Sword Cultivators gathered by the Flying Boat.
• The Sword Cultivators said Li Yang did not need their help, and Su Miao urged the women to open the Slaughter Ranking, saying her junior brother’s name was Qin Feng.

Li Yang rescued the women and exposed Qin Feng’s former weakness, prompting Qin Feng to make peace with his senior sisters and choose his own sword path. As the group traveled toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery, Qin Feng awakened his sword intent, while Li Yang defined a sword as nothing more than a weapon for killing.

• Li Yang returned with the Dual Cultivation Demon Scion’s head, asked Ning Xi to search his soul, and led the survivors toward Heavenly Spirit Commandery.
• Su Miao thanked Li Yang, but he rejected any special bond with the women, leaving them remorseful over how they had treated Qin Feng.
• Li Yang rebuked Qin Feng for centering his life on women, and Qin Feng vowed to follow his own sword path and define his own worth.
• Qin Feng spoke privately with Su Miao and the other four women, then emerged with perfected Geng Metal sword intent and declared they would remain senior sisters and junior brother without revolving around one another.
• Qin Feng asked Li Yang what the sword meant to him, and Li Yang answered that it was simply a weapon for killing.

In Heavenly Spirit Commandery, Governor Lan Yue and her daughter Ling Shuang struggled to protect locals from arrogant outside trial participants. When a blood-robed demon scion threatened a stall owner, someone intervened just as he was about to crush her heart.

• Ling Shuang learned that a righteous outsider sword cultivator had turned the battle against the Myriad Venom Dynasty and wondered why their world had no sword cultivators.
• Lan Yue and Ling Shuang responded to trouble in the Commandery City, where a blood-robed young man had crippled a foundation establishment cultivator and threatened the stall owner.
• The blood-robed young man intimidated the injured man into claiming he had hurt himself, preventing Lan Yue from expelling the attacker.
• The stall owner refused to sell him her beast blood, so he lifted her into the air and began crushing her organs.
• An unseen speaker challenged the blood-robed young man, saying, "I've got guts too."

Li Yang arrived in Heavenly Spirit Commandery, killed the Blood-Robed Youth for terrorizing its people, and condemned Lan Yue for failing to protect them. After Ning Xi reported that everything was ready, Lan Yue sensed a bloody scene outside the city and froze.

• Li Yang stopped the Blood-Robed Youth from harming Ling Shuang and learned that the youth had been killing and threatening people in Heavenly Spirit Commandery.
• Li Yang broke through the Blood-Robed Youth's Blood Armor and pursued him despite his threats and powerful backers.
• A Crimson Demon Shadow appeared to protect the Blood-Robed Youth, but Li Yang killed him and dispersed the phantom before it could strike.
• Li Yang met Lan Yue, handed her a jade slip, and rebuked her for allowing the Blood-Robed Youth to terrorize the commandery.
• Ning Xi arrived by Sword-Flight and told Li Yang that everything had been set up, while Lan Yue sensed a bloody scene outside the city and froze.

Li Yang established himself as Qin Feng, vowed to punish cultivators who harmed mortals, and prepared to lead the Sword Cultivators against the Spirit Devouring Cult. He arrived at Wangya Village just as the cult’s array began draining the villagers’ lives.

• Li Yang threw the Blood-Robed Youth’s head onto a pile of his slain enemies and declared that he would bring order to Heavenly Spirit Commandery.
• Li Yang broke through to the Golden Core stage and saw that Kill, Tu Nine Provinces, and Gathering Harem had risen close to him on the Slaughter Ranking.
• Ning Xi gave Li Yang a modified Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation, while Lan Yue and Ling Shuang joined his expedition against the Spirit Devouring Cult.
• Li Yang led the Sword Cultivators out of Heavenly Spirit Commandery, with Lan Yue concealed nearby and Ling Shuang entering the formation.
• At Wangya Village, five Spirit Devouring Cult cultivators used a blood array and black insects to drain the vitality of hundreds of villagers.
• A sword cry interrupted the cultists as Li Yang’s voice warned that they would not live long enough to finish their ritual.

Li Yang led the sword cultivators in destroying the Spirit Devouring Cult, then traveled to the imperial capital after a Heaven-Patrolling Envoy summoned him on the sovereign’s behalf. He met the sovereign and discovered that she was a woman.

• Li Yang and the sword cultivators swept through the Heavenly Spirit Commandery, killing demonic fiends and evildoers before invading the Spirit Devouring Cult’s territory.
• Li Yang shattered the Spirit Devouring Formation while Lan Yue fought the Sky-Devouring Old Devil, then Li Yang and Ning Xi killed Sky-Devouring True Person as he tried to flee.
• Li Yang ordered the sword cultivators to seal the sect and leave none alive; they eradicated the Spirit Devouring Cult and displayed its severed heads outside the city.
• A Heaven-Patrolling Envoy arrived and invited Li Yang to the imperial capital to meet the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s sovereign, promising a token of appreciation.
• Li Yang accepted the invitation, traveled to the imperial capital, and met the sovereign, who revealed that she was a woman.

Li Yang accepted the Heavenly Origin Empress’s Imperial Seal and gathered Sword Cultivators to purge evil fiends across the dynasty. As his following grew, a Golden Core woman from the Xuanyuan Sword Sect challenged him and demanded that he join her hunt for the Xuanyuan Traitor if she won.

• The Heavenly Origin Empress gave Li Yang the Golden Phoenix Imperial Seal, granting him the dynasty’s fortune and freedom to act, while refusing to withdraw the offer when her ministers objected.
• Li Yang refused to become sovereign, used the seal to locate evil fiends, and announced a campaign to enforce Heaven’s law and defend the righteous path.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress told her ministers that the natives faced destruction when the Secret Realm closed and that relying on outside Trial Takers was their chance to survive.
• Over two days, Li Yang attracted more than three hundred Sword Cultivators, while Trial Takers speculated about his strength and his possible conflict with the Xuanyuan Traitor.
• A Golden Core woman from the Xuanyuan Sword Sect arrived and challenged Li Yang, saying that if she defeated him, he and his followers would join her in killing the Xuanyuan Traitor.

Li Yang fought Lu Qingqiu, a Crown Champion of the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, after she challenged his authority and urged him to prioritize killing a traitor. He defeated her, but she warned that the traitor had already killed a senior brother stronger than her and was certainly stronger than Li Yang.

• Su Hen and Li Yang's followers rejected Lu Qingqiu's demand to lead them, so she challenged Li Yang and set terms for the fight.
• Li Yang recognized Lu Qingqiu as a nascent soul realm Sword Cultivator with a sword spirit, and they began a direct contest of swordsmanship.
• Lu Qingqiu's superior body tempering and treasures gave her advantages, but Ning Xi firmly predicted that Li Yang would win.
• After several hundred exchanges, Li Yang endured Lu Qingqiu's soul attack and defeated her, holding his sword to her brow.
• Lu Qingqiu accepted Li Yang's greater strength but warned that a traitor had killed a senior brother stronger than her and would be stronger than Li Yang.

Li Yang led the sword cultivators against demonic forces after preparing to grow stronger, while the Heavenly Origin Empress rallied her dynasty for war. In the Nine Nether Dynasty, Mu Zangfeng allied with Holy Son Qianyang and learned that a foretold lamp-bearer might kill him, but he vowed to kill Li Yang first.

• Li Yang persuaded Lu Qingqiu to abandon an immediate pursuit of the traitor, and she joined his sword cultivators.
• Ning Xi gave Li Yang a modified Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation that tempered his body and soul as he fought, despite Lu Qingqiu's warning that it could kill him.
• Li Yang led nearly a thousand sword cultivators to sweep the Heavenly Origin Dynasty clear of evil fiends and attack demonic forces.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress ordered her court to mobilize against Ten Thousand Poisons and vowed to silence anyone who opposed her plan to unify the Void-Slaying Realm.
• Mu Zangfeng joined Holy Son Qianyang's camp, warning that Li Yang's campaign threatened their plans and promising to eliminate the Xuanyuan sword cultivators.
• Mu Zangfeng's sword pellets overwhelmed a Golden-Red Sword Pellet that warned him a lamp beyond prediction would bring about his death, and Mu Zangfeng vowed to kill Li Yang.

Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion toward a shattered minor world to claim a mutated Immortal-Era treasure, hoping it would help him face Mu Zangfeng and the Qianyang Holy Son. The chapter ended when a blade of grass inside the world killed a prodigy and shattered a star, revealing that the dangerous place lay beyond the secret realm trial’s bounds.

• Li Yang built the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s forces into a major faction and became the first trial taker to reach Nascent Soul, but escaped after fighting nearly a hundred Nine Nether Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Li Yang learned that an ancient Slaughter Dao treasure had mutated into a formless being of baleful energy and resolved to claim it as a weapon against Mu Zangfeng.
• Li Yang sought allies and strength, while his battalion attacked Nine Nether cultivators who crossed their path on the way to the treasure.
• Li Yang led three thousand sword cultivators to the shattered minor world, where a prodigy entered through an opening and was cut in two by an inconspicuous blade of grass.
• The blade’s slash continued beyond the opening and shattered a star, leading an experienced cultivator to conclude that the minor world lay outside the secret realm trial.

Li Yang entered the shattered world with Ning Xi after slaughtering the Nine Nether Dynasty's Demonic Path cultivators outside. When he found Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and a Demon Race Crown Champion pursuing a Blood-Haired Youth who held the Slaughter Dao Supreme Treasure, Li Yang attacked them and urged the youth to escape.

• Li Yang ordered Qin Feng to kill Mu Zangfeng or Holy Son Qianyang if they appeared, then returned to the formation and led the Sword Cultivators in wiping out the Demonic Path cultivators nearby.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi entered the shattered world through a breach, where they discussed their growing familiarity and Ning Xi teased him with flirtation.
• After several days, Li Yang sensed a battle and found Holy Son Qianyang and others pursuing a Blood-Haired Youth who appeared to possess the supreme treasure.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi attacked Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, and a Demon Race Crown Champion, giving the Blood-Haired Youth a chance to flee.
• Mu Zangfeng questioned Li Yang's motives, while Holy Son Qianyang offered to spare him and forgo the treasure if Ning Xi joined his harem.

Li Yang wounded the Nether Qilin-Eyed Demon with a reckless strike, then escaped Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang while protecting Ning Xi. The blood-haired young man returned with Sang Yan and four other Crown Champions, who joined forces with Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang to target Li Yang and Qin Feng.

• Ning Xi rejected Holy Son Qianyang and condemned his belief that he could win women through physical conquest.
• Li Yang crossed the unstable void and split the Nether Qilin-Eyed Demon's skull with a surprise sword strike, but Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang struck Li Yang in return.
• Li Yang shielded Ning Xi, suffered severe wounds from Mu Zangfeng's sword and Holy Son Qianyang's solar lightning, and escaped with a talisman; the Nether Qilin-Eyed Demon survived and fled.
• Ning Xi healed Li Yang's wounds with pills and Life Nectar, but immortal blood on Mu Zangfeng's sword prevented his back wound from healing.
• Li Yang retreated while counterattacking Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang, then encountered the blood-haired young man, Sang Yan, and four other Crown Champions.
• Sang Yan accused Ning Xi of leading her suitors on, and the Crown Champions joined Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang to kill the blood-haired young man and Qin Feng.

Li Yang and Tu Nine Provinces struggled to escape their pursuers while Tu Nine Provinces tried to merge with the Baleful Treasure. When Zi Yuan and two other demon cultivators blocked their way, Li Yang chose to fight them, and Tu Nine Provinces transferred the treasure to him before joining the battle.

• Mu Zangfeng, Holy Son Qianyang, Sang Yan, and the other Crown Champions attacked Li Yang and Tu Nine Provinces, while Ning Xi detonated her destruction talismans to open a chaotic route through the void.
• Holy Son Qianyang and the others pursued Li Yang as he shielded Ning Xi, and Tu Nine Provinces explained that the Baleful Treasure enhanced attacks but would not immediately grant overwhelming power.
• Zi Yuan and two Kan Prefecture demon cultivators intercepted them and demanded that Li Yang cooperate, revealing that Tu Nine Provinces was fourth on the Slaughter Ranking and that the demons had exterminated his clan.
• Li Yang rejected Zi Yuan's ultimatum and began burning his life to attack the three demon cultivators, telling Tu Nine Provinces and Ning Xi to escape.
• Tu Nine Provinces revealed that the sword intent came from the Baleful Treasure, transferred it into Li Yang, and stood before him with his blood sabers to fight.

Li Yang merged with the Baleful Treasure, drew on the minor world's killing intent, and defeated Mu Zangfeng after killing the Void Derivation Tribe's Crown Champion. Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang escaped, leaving Li Yang to face Sang Yan and the other suitors who had hunted Ning Xi.

• Li Yang rapidly merged with the Baleful Treasure, healed his wounds, and gained power from the minor world's killing intent.
• The Void Derivation Tribe's Crown Champion ambushed Li Yang, but Li Yang sensed the attack and killed him with one strike.
• Li Yang challenged Mu Zangfeng and overpowered him in a sword clash, then demanded that he use his Sword Pellet.
• Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang escaped through a formation powered by killing intent.
• Li Yang turned toward Sang Yan and the other suitors, and Ning Xi warned him not to expect her to show them mercy.

Li Yang killed Sang Yan and the other Crown Champions, then helped Tu Nine Provinces confront Zi Yuan. Zi Yuan escaped after triggering a dangerous charm that overwhelmed Li Yang and Ning Xi, leaving Li Yang to act to save her as a new bond began to form between them.

• Li Yang killed Sang Yan despite the intervention of Sang Yan's great-grandfather, then slew the other fleeing Crown Champions.
• Tu Nine Provinces held off Zi Yuan and two other Demonic Path Crown Champions until Li Yang arrived and killed the two companions.
• Li Yang defeated Zi Yuan, but her death-substitution puppet released a potent mist; she escaped the minor world with a Greater Spatial-Shift Talisman after a blade of grass cut off her feet.
• Li Yang discovered that the mist was overwhelming Ning Xi and threatening to destroy her cultivation and Vermilion Phoenix Body, so he tried to suppress its effects with his sword intent.
• When Ning Xi kissed him, Li Yang's restraint broke, and the two began forming a new bond amid the ancient battlefield.

Ning Qingfeng’s cultivation went out of control after her bond with Li Yang, while Li Yang escaped the collapsing minor world and returned to the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion. With the Nine Nether Dynasty launching an all-out war, he rallied the Sword Cultivators to join the battle.

• Ning Qingfeng’s Phoenix markings spread as her body and phantom Phoenix reacted to her intertwined Dao resonance with Li Yang, and two Ning Lineage elders discussed her chances of finding a son-in-law worthy of becoming a second Xuanyuan.
• As the minor world collapsed, Lu Qingqiu urged the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion to continue its mission and offered to take command, but the Sword Cultivators remained unwilling to follow her.
• Li Yang cut through the minor world’s barrier and emerged carrying Ning Xi and the Phoenix Sword, silencing the worried Sword Cultivators.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress’s jade slip informed Li Yang that the Nine Nether Dynasty had begun an all-out war, and other messages delivered the same urgent news.
• Qin Feng returned the formation flag to Li Yang, who activated the sword formation and led the Sword Cultivators toward the war with the Nine Nether Dynasty.

Heavenly Origin suffered devastating losses as Nine Nether’s disciplined forces and Blood Glutton’s puppet army overwhelmed its troops. When the Heavenly Origin Empress faced dissent and the Bright Moon Emperor’s attempted power grab, Li Yang appeared with the imperial seal and declared himself Qin Feng, vowing to fight Nine Nether to the death.

• Blood Glutton revealed that fifty thousand blood puppets were attacking the formation master and the Heavenly Origin troops trapped inside the Blood River Formation.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress received reports of mass desertions and learned that Slay had sent her the heads of more than a dozen Nascent Soul commanders.
• The Bright Moon Emperor challenged the Empress’s leadership and announced he would withdraw his people, while she accused him of collaborating with the Demonic Path.
• Li Yang killed the Bright Moon Emperor and warned the assembled sovereigns that anyone who undermined military morale would be executed.
• Li Yang wielded the imperial seal, identified himself as Qin Feng, and vowed to kill or be killed fighting Nine Nether.

Li Yang returned to the Rosy Cloud Mountain Range checkpoint and rescued the formation masters from Blood Asura, then led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion against the Nine Nether vanguard. He urged the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators to stop retreating and charged toward the approaching blood mist with the Heavenly Origin Empress at his side.

• Formation masters abandoned the checkpoint’s defense, while a few stayed behind to hold the grand formation against Blood Asura and the Nine Nether vanguard.
• Li Yang and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion arrived, restoring the formation masters’ resolve as they repaired the checkpoint’s grand formation.
• A formation-focused Trial Taker sealed the region and stopped Blood Asura’s Greater Spatial-Shift Talisman, but Li Yang’s sword qi killed him despite his Blood Escape Technique.
• Li Yang led the Myriad Swords Return to the Sect Formation in slaughtering the thousand-strong Nine Nether vanguard inside the checkpoint.
• Li Yang challenged the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s cultivators to stop retreating, then charged out of the checkpoint toward the approaching blood mist.
• The Heavenly Origin Empress followed Li Yang and vowed to die beneath the Heavenly Origin Dynasty’s flag if necessary.

Li Yang and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion broke through the Blood River Formation and killed Blood Glutton, rescuing the besieged cultivators. Mu Zangfeng then revealed more than a hundred million tortured mortals held in a Five-Element Small World and demanded that Qin Feng abandon his sword formation and follow him into the Nine Nether Dynasty.

• A junior sister died inside the Nine Suns Illuminating the Sky Formation, and her senior brother sacrificed his life to strengthen its barrier.
• Blood Glutton ordered the Blood River cultivators to scatter and wear down the arriving Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion, but Li Yang sensed their killing intent and precisely struck their hidden positions.
• Li Yang and the Sword Cultivators severed Blood Glutton's enormous bloody palm, and Tu Nine Provinces killed Blood Glutton with twin sabers.
• The Nine Suns Illuminating the Sky Formation illuminated the battlefield, and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion routed the Blood River cultivators and destroyed the Blood Puppets.
• Mu Zangfeng showed Qin Feng mortals imprisoned and tortured inside a Five-Element Small World, then demanded that Qin Feng abandon his sword formation and follow him into the Nine Nether Dynasty in exchange for their release.

Li Yang rejected Mu Zangfeng’s attempt to lure him into a duel by threatening captured mortals and instead turned the confrontation into a slaughtering contest against the Nine Nether Dynasty. The chapter ended with both sides escalating the bloodshed as Mu Zangfeng killed millions of mortals and Li Yang urged the sword cultivators to keep fighting.

• Mu Zangfeng offered to release the captured mortals if Li Yang fought him, while Holy Son Qianyang planned to trap them both in a confinement formation.
• Li Yang agreed to Mu Zangfeng’s proposal to slaughter without rules, but clarified that he meant a contest of killing rather than a duel.
• Li Yang ordered the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion and the sword cultivators to attack the Nine Nether Dynasty’s forces.
• Mu Zangfeng caused natural disasters inside the minor world, killing millions of mortals, and accused Li Yang of forcing his hand.
• Li Yang vowed to answer the mortals’ deaths by killing Nine Nether cultivators and urged the sword cultivators not to stop slaughtering.

Ye Zhiqiu received a combat experience pack from his system, grew stronger, and gained a nine-aperture exquisite immortal body while the battle in the Void-Slaying Realm turned against the Nine Nether Dynasty. He resolved to defeat Qin Feng and take back the women he had lost.

• Mu Zangfeng attacked the top-ranked Slaughter Ranking experts, but Tu Nine Provinces confronted him and tied him down in battle.
• The Nine Nether army began retreating as Li Yang and the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion helped turn the battle around.
• Ye Zhiqiu watched Qin Feng's influence on the battlefield and blamed his system for failing to make him strong enough to defeat Qin Feng.
• Ye Zhiqiu absorbed a Millennium Combat Experience Pack, killed more than a dozen Golden Core experts, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The system revealed that it had exchanged Ye Zhiqiu's life on Blue Star for the combat experience pack, and Ye Zhiqiu decided to pursue power regardless.
• Ye Zhiqiu claimed a nine-aperture exquisite immortal body, sensed the laws of the slaughter Dao, and vowed to reclaim everything from Qin Feng.

After the battle paused, Ning Xi helped Li Yang temper his body until it reached Crown Champion-level strength. They then visited the Demon-Suppressing Market, where a Nine Cauldron Merchant Association representative invited Li Yang to a private meeting and hinted that the association knew details about Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang.

• Li Yang withdrew the exhausted Sword Cultivators into the Checkpoint Grand Formation and dismissed them to recover while the war remained in a truce.
• Ning Xi brewed a body-tempering medicine from rare treasures, and Li Yang endured its painful refinement until his flesh, meridians, and bones were rebuilt.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi visited the Heavenly Origin Empress, who sought his approval of military tactics, but he left the planning to the others.
• Li Yang and Ning Xi went to the Demon-Suppressing Market to sell resources from his spoils, and Ning Xi explained how merchant-association candidates profited from the war.
• A maid invited Li Yang to meet her Nine Cauldron Merchant Association master and privately claimed the association knew about Mu Zangfeng's and Holy Son Qianyang's cultivation foundations.

Li Yang confronted Gu Luoyuan and Saintess Su Yao at the Nine Cauldrons Treasure House over their past inaction against evil fiends. He slapped Su Yao and sent Gu Luoyuan crashing through the shop, then turned to discuss Mu Zangfeng’s and Holy Son Qianyang’s secrets with the merchant association’s candidate.

• Li Yang recognized Gu Luoyuan and Saintess Su Yao leaving a neighboring room and unleashed his killing intent, frightening everyone in the Nine Cauldrons Treasure House.
• The merchant association’s candidate identified Gu Luoyuan as a Demon Scion who fought for the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, while Li Yang confronted him and Su Yao about their past inaction in Myriad Phenomena City.
• Li Yang warned Su Yao not to dodge and slapped the merchant association’s candidate after she teleported in to take the blow for Su Yao.
• Li Yang slapped Su Yao into the wall and told her and Gu Luoyuan to leave, saying he would wait for them to seek revenge outside the Secret Realm.
• Li Yang struck Gu Luoyuan through the shop’s formation and part of the building, then warned him that displaying killing intent again would mean death.
• Li Yang asked the merchant association’s candidate about Mu Zangfeng’s and Holy Son Qianyang’s cultivation secrets and trump cards.

Li Yang and Ning Xi traded their spoils with Shen Yaoyin, who revealed secrets about Mu Zangfeng and gave Li Yang a weapon that could exploit Holy Son Qianyang’s weakness. After they left, Shen Yaoyin secretly arranged to sell information about Li Yang to his enemies.

• Li Yang and Ning Xi sold their spoils to Shen Yaoyin and received intelligence on Mu Zangfeng and Holy Son Qianyang.
• Shen Yaoyin explained that Mu Zangfeng was trying to control the Immortal-Slaying Sword Pellet by using the Purple Mansion Furnace Art to consume other sword cultivators’ sword pellets.
• Shen Yaoyin told Li Yang that Holy Son Qianyang’s Qianyang emperor body could be countered by superior masculine charm and gave him a pink bead refined from a Mahayana-stage Void Immortal’s remains.
• Li Yang swore not to reveal Shen Yaoyin’s involvement, then left with Ning Xi.
• After their departure, Shen Yaoyin ordered an unseen associate to sell information about Li Yang to Holy Son Qianyang and Jiang Xingzhou.

Li Yang learned that the Heretic-Suppression Office suspected Ye Zhiqiu of being an Outer-Domain Celestial Demon empowered by a system. After discovering Ye Zhiqiu had become a powerful Nine Nether Dynasty fighter, Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion back into battle, where the two faced each other.

• Li Yang checked on the sword cultivators and found Qin Feng with his five senior sisters and a sword envoy from the Heretic-Suppression Office.
• The envoy explained that the office hunted system-bearing Outer-Domain Celestial Demons and suspected Ye Zhiqiu because of his abrupt influence, suspicious resources, and sudden arrival.
• Li Yang learned that Ye Zhiqiu had risen to sixth on the Slaughter Ranking, transformed into a nine-aperture exquisite immortal body, and joined the Nine Nether Dynasty.
• Several days later, Li Yang led the Heavenly Gang Demon-Suppressing Battalion into battle and saw Ye Zhiqiu, whose power now rivaled Tu Nine Provinces and Holy Son Qianyang.
• Ye Zhiqiu looked at Li Yang and declared that Qin Feng was not the only one who had transformed.